We’re hosting a Victorian-themed Christmas at our South Shields care home
A South Shields care home is bringing Christmas back to its traditional roots.
Staff and residents at the Garden Hill Care Home, on St Michael's Avenue, in South Shields, are celebrating the festive season in a more traditional way for 2025 as they unveil their Victorian-themed Christmas.
Residents have been crafting and painting decorations to display around the home, which has even included traditional dried fruit and the creation of their own ‘fireplace’.
Paper chains have been put up around Garden Hill and there has been special attention to detail by making a leather effect on giant books to complement the Dickensian Christmas theme.
The home will also play host to a travelling pantomime later in December, who by coincidence at putting on a performance of A Christmas Carol.
Stacey Adams, Lifestyle Coordinator at Garden Hill Care Home, has told the Shields Gazette that the festive spirit is very high at the home ahead of Christmas.
She said: “We just wanted to do something a bit unique for Christmas so we thought that it would be quite nice to make our own decorations and get back to the routes of a traditional Christmas, which led us to a Victorian-themed Christmas.
“It has been lovely and very festive, we’ve got lots of Christmas activities and events going on, as well as more planned.
“We’ve got a travelling panto visiting us who will be performing A Christmas Carol so that ties in very nicely with it all.
“But also, we put on the unveiling of the Fenwick’s Window in our cinema room at the home and we were delighted to find out that it was A Christmas Carol.
“It was really nice that it has all coincided.
“We’re all having fun and very excited for the month ahead - we’ve tried to get things done as early as possible in November so that we can just all enjoy December.”
You can find out more about Garden Hill Care Home at: https://www.mmcgcarehomes.co.uk/care-homes/garden-hill-care-home-south-shields.